Marshall Rare Books
Travel & Exploration
Pacific, Americas, Polar, Asia
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Plans and Photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Island of Lewis; with Notes relating to the Druids and Sketches of Cromlechs in Ireland.
This copy of a scarce and important photographic incunable differs slightly from most copies.
The Daily Journal, For the Year of Our Lord 1755…
Used by an anonymous privateer and sailor in the Jamaica Squadron during the American Revolution.
A Collection of Original Voyages: Containing I. Capt. Cowley’s Voyage Round the Globe. II. Captain Sharp’s Journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and Expedition into the South Seas, Written by Himself.
Scarce first edition of this famous collection, one of the important works issued by the publisher Knapton to capitalise on the best-selling account…
A Diary of the Wreck of his Majesty’s Ship Challenger, on the Western Coast of South America, in May 1835
A detailed account of the seven-week ordeal which the survivors of the wrecked Challenger endured on the barren Chilean coast, by one of the ship’s…
A New Voyage Round the World, Describing particularly, The Isthmus of America, several Coasts and Islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the Passage by Terra del Fuego
One of the Most Famous of the Buccaneering Voyages.
The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’
Important author's presentation copy, inscribed to one of the heroes of the indian mutiny
Manuscript letter on replacing sails damaged in the battle of Granada
Manuscript letter, 2pp., copy of correspondence from Parker on recto, response from officers on verso, all in the same secretarial hand, signed by…
Letter to J.H. Addington
Addinton, saying he has put his letter before the Commissioners of the Admiralty and has “it in command to acquaint you that their Lordships having…
Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien door Ionnes de Laet. Tweede druck.
A splendid set
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, New South Wales, including an accurate description of the situation of the colony; of the natives; and of its natural productions.
First Edition of this rare work.
Hidden gem
The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant’ Angel Escribano de Racion of the Kingdom of Arago Dated 15 February 1493 Reprinted in facsimile…
Translator’s proof copy
Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, In the Years 1824-1825
Byron returns the body of King Kamehameha.
Fac-Simile of the “Dutch Vespucius” Being the Celebrated Letter of Americus Vespucius to Laurentius de Medicis. Describing his Third Voyage to America, in the Year 1501, for the King of Portugal.
A facsimile of the famous “Mondus Novus” letter by Amerigo Vespucci to his friend and former employer Lorenzo de’ Medici (1463-1503). It describes a…
A Vindication of the Conduct of Captain Christopher Middleton, in a Late Voyage on Board His Majesty’s Ship the Furnace, For Discovering a North-West Passage to the Western American Ocean.
Very Rare First Edition of the first published work in the long series of attacks and counters between the merchant Dobbs and Captain Middleton. Only…
A New Survey of the West-Indies: Being A Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the Main Land of America
A Classic Account of 17th Century Mexico and the West Indies
Memoirs of Transactions at Sea During the War with France; Beginning in 1688, and Ending in 1697
Burchett’s Memoirs of Transactions of the Sea has become a key source of naval history for that era.
A Booke called the Treasure for traueilers, deuided into fiue Bookes or partes, containynyng vary necessary matters, for all sortes of Trauailers, eyther by sea or by land
This work is divided into five parts containing mathematical instructions to calculate distances for navigation, with many diagrams throughout the…
A true and impartial journal of a voyage to the South-seas, and round the globe in his Majesty’s ship the Centurion, under command of commodore George Anson.
As well as the account of the treasure, the appendix discusses the dimensions of the ships, the motions of a comet seen on the coast of Mexico and…
A JOURNALL BY GODS PERMISSION OF OUR INTENDED VOYAGE TO BORNEO IN THE EAST INDIES IN THE SEAFORD, CAPT. MARTIN GARDINER COMANDER. BY HENRY KEENE. COMMENCING FROM MONDAY THE 3RD DAY OF MAY, ANNO DMI.
East india company journal & log
MANUSCRIPT PILOT AND NAVIGATOR’S LOG FOR USE ABOARD HMS PALLAS 1768 – 1782.
At sea - sailing directions for entering the ports, harbours and bays from cadiz in spain via west africa to port royal in the west indies. this…
The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts; Being a Series of Uncommon Events Which befell him in a Voyage to the Islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes
George Roberts is a first-person account of a nautical adventure that easily divides into three segments: (1) a trading voyage from London to the…
A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope.
This work is an account of one of the most colourful and swashbuckling voyages written about the buccaneers.
The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’ Voyage to the South-Seas: or, the adventures of Capt. Cheap, the Hon. Mr. Byron, Lieut.
FIRST EDITION, VERY SCARCE: An important account from a survivor of the ship Wager, wrecked off the Patagonian coast and vividly described by…
Voyage De La Perouse Autour Du Monde, Publie Conformement Au Decret Du 22 Avril 1791, et Redige Par M. L. A. Milet-Mureau
FIRST EDITION 5 volumes (4 of text and an atlas), 4to (290 x 215mm.) and folio (575 x 425mm.), text volumes in contemporary full mottled calf gilt…